published in Statement Magazine’s print Spring 2023

“We sleep on layers of dried cum stains”

Bed Sheets

"as with the stars. What is left— 
me and my dog, 
two lazy hogs who sleep all day" 



Landscape of an Apartment Rental

“buzz is my real name. the rocket
sounds our bodies made.”

ex gf moon landing

"Her eyes shimmer in hummingbirds. Mom’s lipstick on my cheek a new fossil i will plant in the grass with my remains."

Jess and the Real Mom

“Those sweet nothings I whispered that was just air with sounds that made words that made the moon that made the moan and swoon — no big deal, right just a little breeze rustlin their trees!”

Used Love Salesman

“For most of its young life, the euthanasia rollercoaster has slept. Today, it will wake up for just a few minutes to usher the living up and down its steel hills. The death machine will never know the thrills of the carnival that once lived here"

The Death Machine

“I will tell you about students with their sea legs who disembark from a red ship, tumble out of screeching taxis, visit that same bar, and get drunk in the daytime.”

Language is a Virus from Outer Space: Divining Burroughs

“You must at least be lighter than a brown paper bag
like how we calibrate our neighbors
in the suburbs against the Sun”

Calibration

“This is a map of your heartbeat
as you eat your dinner."

Dinner

“You are not prone to decay. When her eyes opened, her face was a pale grey in the plastic moon above her. She lay beneath the grapefruit head of a man removing his nosey latex fingers from her mouth"

Jessica Rowshandel

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